I dont see the problem of double spending in the form you describe it.
Lets say someone posts his own post a second time. Yes, he received upvotes for it at the first time already, but not from the same people - assuming that we dont have a lot of steemians here suffering from memory loss.
So those who upvote the second time posting, have not double voted for the same content. They only didn't see the first time post and missed to upvote it then.
That situation even is in effect if someone steals the content from someone elses post. That being said, it s cheap and unethical to do that of course (and a possible copyright violation). But even then, the people who dont know that its stolen content and like and upvote it, have not double spend on the same content.
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Thank you, someone who gets it. There is always a new audience on steemit. It grows in numbers everyday. You as an Author put something out 5 months ago, lets say, and you were new to steemit, and barely had a following, in order to build a following you put what you think of as your best foot forward. Now after 5 months you have a following, is it really and truly unethical, for you to re-issue your best song so your new audience can enjoy hearing it? I think not. Most people are smart enough to see when a poster is just trying to game the system, it is called having an ounce of brain.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that people should repost on a regular basis. It could start to bore your followers and thus damage your rewards, even that of the new posts.
All I'm saying is, that we dont get rewarded by Steemit for hitting the post button, but by users upvoting to content of a post. And I dont think that many will upvote the same content several times.
I dont really see the big issue in this. There are a lot more pressing cases of system abuse - and even outright fraud - going on on Steemit, which do much more damage to the community and the reward pool.
I agree, we are all semi-intelligent people.